Mokgaga’s obscurity sadly persists under the watch of his one-time political home, the African National Congress (ANC). Mokgaga was one of the ANC’s pioneering intellectuals, as witness Clause 8 of the Freedom Charter of 1955: “The doors of learning shall be opened to all.”

This propitious occasion, was divided twofold. The first session (which was advertised to run from 9am until noon) marked the ninth edition, of the ACIAWC, while the second session marked the sixteenth edition, of the SALA’s.

Since August 2020, DRUM magazine, perhaps owing to the COVID-19 pandemic and the forthcoming demands of the fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR), transitioned to become South Africa’s weekly fully digital magazine.

The significance of the 19th of October 1977 ban, may however regrettably be diminished, when chroniclers recall it, under the problematic reference of ‘Black Wednesday’. ‘Black Wednesday’, was coined by the Apartheid regime’s propaganda apparatus

Explicably Zwelethu was Mr Seroke’s nickname (p.64), inspired from his affiliation to the Pan African Congress (PAC) of Azania’s ‘rallying open palm salute’ Izwe lethu.